Sunday, February 17, 2008

The Toronto Star's 10 Things We Learned This Week

Some of the things we learned this week, according to the Toronto Star's weekly feature "10 Things We Learned This Week" includes:
There are 38 listed ingredients in McDonald's Chicken McNuggets, including – yes – chicken, "chicken flavour," wheat starch, corn starch, sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium aluminum phosphate, and partially hydrogenated corn oil with "TBHQ

American actress Grace Kelly (1929-1982) is mentioned in songs by, among others, Madonna ("Vogue"), Billy Joel ("We Didn't Start the Fire"), Mika ("Grace Kelly"), and Rufus Wainwright ("That Night")



The Rubber Duck bath toy, now made primarily of vinyl plastic, took off in North America after Ernie of Sesame Street recorded "Rubber Duckie" in 1970
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